Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Neuwerk | 8.1940- M4005, 10.1940- M4006 | 480 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 4.1.1916 | 3.1916 | sold 4.1919, minesweeper 8.1940, sunk 20.4.1942 | |
Bunte Kuh | 488 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 15.4.1916 | 5.1916 | sold 6.1919 | ||
Seestern | 489 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 28.5.1916 | 6.1916 | sunk 2.2.1918 | ||
Reiherstieg | 490 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 10.7.1916 | 8.1916 | to United Kingdom 7.1920 | ||
Dirk von Minden | 491 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 26.8.1916 | 11.1916 | sunk 29.11.1917 | ||
Max Schinkel | 492 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 5.10.1916 | 12.1916 | sunk 22.5.1917 | ||
Direktor Schauseil | 495 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 1916 | 10.1916 | sunk 16.5.1918 | ||
Professor Pagel | 496 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 7.9.1916 | 12.1916 | sold 6.1919 | ||
Kronprinz Wilhelm | 497 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 5.9.1917 | 10.1917 | sold 11.1919 | ||
Kronprinz Rupprecht | 498 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 1917 | --- // 1918 | completed as submarine depot ship | ||
Herzog Albrecht, 2.1943- La Grêle | 2.1943- M4243 | 499 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 22.2.1918 | 4.1918 | sold 4.1920, minesweeper 2.1943, scuttled 16.12.1944 | |
Prinz Leopold | 500 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 1918 | --- // 1918 | completed as pilot vessel | ||
Prinz Heinrich | 501 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 1918 | --- | scuttled incomplete 10.1918 | ||
Graf Bothmer | 502 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 30.8.1918 | --- // 6.1919 | completed mercantile | ||
Von Kluck | 503 | Reiherstieg, Hamburg | 2.1919 | --- // 6.1919 | completed mercantile |
Displacement standard, t |
|
Displacement full, t |
470 |
Length, m |
36.4 - 36.6 |
Breadth, m |
7.38 - 7.41 |
Draught, m |
3.98 |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
1 VTE, 1 boiler |
Power, h. p. |
400 |
Max speed, kts |
10.5 |
Fuel, t |
coal 170 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 5140(10) |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 88/27 TK L/30 C/08 |
Complement | 22 - 31 |
Project history: Fishery trawlers, purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as auxiliary patrols.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Seestern was sunk on German mine 2.2.1918 W off Hornsriff. Dirk von Minden was sunk on mine laid by British submarine E51 29.11.1917 W off Terschelling. Max Schinkel was sunk on mine laid by British submarine E51 22.5.1917 NE off Ameland. Direktor Schauseil was mined 16.5.1918 in the North Sea.
Neuwerk was sold to France in 1931, requisitioned by French Navy in 1939 as minesweeper AD142 and sunk 19.6.1940. She was salvaged this year by Germans, commissioned by Kriegsmarine 5.8.1940 as M4005 and mined 20.4.1942 E off Morlaix. Herzog Albrecht was sold to France in 1928 but requisitioned by Kriegsmarine in November, 1941, commissioned 2.2.1943 as minesweeper M4243 and scuttled 16.12.1944 in mouth of Loire.
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